“vis-à-vis ups the ante when
the threat to that abstract innocence is given a name, as short
clips of everyday folk talking
about the Vietnam War mingle with folksy acoustic guitar No golden
wisdon drops from their lips, which mutter observations more
on the order of “Yeah, my uncle was in the war, and he
came back, like, f—ked up.”
“Far from
ingratiating, the babble is the beauty of the piece, sympathetically
laying b,
heare our sheer inability to vocalize the experience of war
while making a case for the meaning in motion before us.
SF Examiner, Rachel Howard |